On March 25, faced with rising Covid-19 cases, administrators in Vermont’s Washington Central Unified Union School District announced that they would reimpose their mask mandate.
Citing guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the district announced that it would require masks in all indoor spaces starting March 28. Schools needed to “normalize masking in times of high viral activity,” administrators said.
On the same day that school officials announced the return of the mask mandate, Secretary of Education Dan French emailed the superintendent and urged her to drop it, emails show.
